Feb 11, 2024
Ex-minister: I wish I asked more questions about Post Office
Labour's Pat McFadden has said he wishes he had asked more questions about the Post Office when he was a minister after the IT scandal emerged. A number of former ministers with responsibility for the Post Office have faced questions about what they knew and when about the prosecution of branch managers based on faulty evidence from the computer system. In December 2009, Mr McFadden wrote in response to a letter from then-Conservative MP James Arbuthnot, a long-standing campaigner on the issue, that it was a matter for Post Office, not the government, and Post Office had told him "There is nothing to indicate that there are any problems with the Horizon system". Former Post Office ministers Sir Ed Davey and Jo Swinson of the Liberal Democrats and former Conservative minister Margot James have also been asked to appear in front of the public inquiry. Sir Ed, who now leads the Lib Dems, has also said he regrets not asking "Tougher questions" of Post Office managers when he was a minister, claiming he was "Deeply misled".
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